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12. Farming question, the: intergenerational linkages, gender and youth aspirations in rural zambia
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Oluwafemi Ogunjimi, Thomas Daum (author) and Kariuki, Juliet (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-11-28
- Published:
- United States: Wiley Online
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12768
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- Online
- Notes:
- 37pgs, With agriculture considered key to generating jobs for Africa's growing population, several studies have explored youth aspirations toward farming. While many factors explaining aspirations have been well studied, little is known about the actors' shaping aspirations. We developed a novel framework that focuses on the factors and actors shaping the formation and actual aspirations of rural youth and applied a unique “whole-family” approach based on mixed-methods data collection from adolescents (boys and girls) and corresponding adults. We applied this approach in rural Zambia, collecting data from 348 adolescents and adults in 87 households. The study finds that parents strongly shape youth aspirations—they are much more influential than siblings, peers, church, and media. Male youth are more likely to envision farming (full or part-time) than female youth. The male preference for farming reflects their parent's aspirations and is reinforced by the patriarchal system of land inheritance. Parents' farm characteristics, such as degree of mechanization, are also associated with aspirations. We recommend a “whole- family” approach, which acknowledges the influential role of parents, for policies and programs for rural youth and a stronger focus on gender aspects.
13. Forest conservation, value conflict, and interest formation in a Honduran national park
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Pfeffer, Max J. (author), Schelhas, John W. (author), and Day, Leyla Ann (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2001
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18692
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 66 (3) : 382-402
- Notes:
- We argue that attempts to superimpose park regulatory regimes on existing land uses in the tropics represent conflicts between alternative cultural models of natural resource management. The results of such conflcits are unique regulatory regimes emerging from distinctive processes that redefine the terms and limits of natural resource use. In creating scarcity of available resource, parks encourage social diffrentiation and greater awareness of societal patterns of inequality, establishing a potential for the articulation of demands for social and environmental equity. We evaluate these claims with a case study of the Cerro Azul Meambar National Park in Honduras. We base our analysis on 54 in-depth interviews of Park residents and five Park communities.
14. Innovating conservation agriculture: the case of no-till cropping
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Coughenour, C. Milton (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2003
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18391
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 68(2) : 278-304
- Notes:
- "The argument advanced here is that actor-network theory is useful in analyzing conservation agriculture as a radically different agriculture: a new paradigm with new beliefs about soils, plants, and environment, and farmers themselves as well as new crop production systems."
15. Making sense of voluntary participation: a theoretical synthesis
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ryan, Vernon D. (author), Agnitsch, Kerry A. (author), Zhao, Lijun (author), and Mullick, Rehan (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2005-09
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C23659
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 70(3) : 287-313
16. Newspaper construction of a moral farmer
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Reisner, Ann (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2003-03
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 126 Document Number: C18475
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- 68(1): 47-63
- Notes:
- 9 pp.
17. Opportunity theory and agricultural crime victimization
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Mears, Daniel P. (author), Scott, Michelle L. (author), and Bhati, Avinash S. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2007-06
- Published:
- United States: Wiley-Blackwell
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 203 Document Number: D12252
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol 72, Num 2
- Notes:
- 34 pages, A growing body of research lends support to opportunity theory and its variants, but has yet to focus systematically on a number of specific offenses and contexts. Typically, the more crimes and contexts to which a theory applies, the broader its scope and range, respectively, and thus generalizability. In this paper, we focus on agricultural crime victimization— including theft of farm equipment, crops, livestock, and chemicals—an offense that opportunity theory appears well-situated to explain. Specifically, we examine whether key dimensions of the theory are empirically associated with the likelihood of victimization and also examine factors associated with farmers’ use of guardianship measures. In contrast to much previous research, we combine multiple individual-level measures of these dimensions. We conclude that the theory partially accounts for variation in agricultural crime victimization, depending on the type of crime, and that greater work is needed investigating how key dimensions of opportunity theory should be conceptualized and operationalized in rural contexts. The study’s implications for theory and practice are discussed.
18. Pacification or contestation? The role of discourse in agricultural policy
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Dupuis, E. Melanie (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1999-03
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: C10386
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- <64(1):158-163>
- Notes:
- Call No: 309.13305RU
19. Rural women and decision making: women's role in resource management during rural restructuring
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Rickson, Sarah Tufts (author) and Daniels, Peter L. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1999-06
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: C10391
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- <64(2): 234-250>
20. Seeing green: lifecycles of an arctic agricultural frontier
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Price, Mindy Jewell (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2023-07-14
- Published:
- USA: Wiley Periodicals LLC
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12929
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- V. 0, N.0
- Notes:
- 31 pages, Imaginaries of empty, verdant lands have long motivated agricultural frontier expansion. Today, climate change, food insecurity, and economic promise are invigorating new agricultural frontiers across the circumpolar north. In this article, I draw on extensive archival and ethnographic evidence to analyze mid-twentieth-century and recent twenty-first-century narratives of agricultural development in the Northwest Territories, Canada. I argue that the early frontier imaginary is relatively intact in its present lifecycle. It is not simply climactic forces that are driving an emergent northern agricultural frontier, but rather the more diffuse and structural forces of capitalism, governmental power, settler colonialism, and resistance to those forces. I also show how social, political, and infrastructural limits continue to impede agricultural development in the Northwest Territories and discuss how smallholder farmers and Indigenous communities differently situate agricultural production within their local food systems. This paper contributes to critical debates in frontiers and northern agriculture literature by foregrounding the contested space between the state-driven and dominant public narratives underpinning frontier imaginaries, and the social, cultural, and material realities that constrain them on a Northwest Territories agricultural frontier.
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